The fires of Vesuvius : Pompeii lost and found

by: Beard, Mary, 1955-

Publication date: 2008

Topics: Alltag, Römerzeit, Alltag, Alltag, Alltag

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Collection: inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; delawarecountydistrictlibrary; china; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Internet Archive

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-335) and index

Living in an old city -- Street life -- House and home -- Painting and decorating -- Earning a living : baker, banker and garum maker -- Who ran the city? -- The pleasures of the body : food, wine, sex and baths -- Fun and games -- A city full of gods

Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman Empire. But the eruptions are only part of the story. In The Fires of Vesuvius, acclaimed historian Mary Beard makes sense of the remains. She explores what kind of town it was -- more like Calcutta or the Costa del Sol? -- and what it can tell us about "ordinary" life there. --from publisher description